how was the greek goddess athena born zeus's first wife was the goddess of knowledge metis a prophecy stated that she would give birth to two children first would be athena and second was to be born with sufficient might to depose zeus naturally he was quite nervous about this so he came up with a plan to wipe menace out she fell for his ploy allowing him to transform her into a fly then not understanding that she was already pregnant he swallowed her this led him to develop a headache so severe that nothing could cure it so
hephaestus god of fire in blacksmiths took an axe and split open zeus's head and from there sprung out athena fully grown as a beautiful young woman in full armor and carrying a spear announcing her arrival with a loud war cry she went on to be symbolized as the goddess of wisdom and war in another narrative athena was simply born from zeus's head without the presence of any motherly figure and this sums up the story enjoyed it then head on to our channel where we have covered more interesting myths like
